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Inventor's Story: Cosmetic Lad

Helen, our Head of Arts and Science at Lush has been inventing skin care formulas for over a decade. With Cosmetic Lad, she sneakily made it smell of sweet tangerine ice cream so that when women got close to them, they would be in for a juicy sensation.

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